2nd Line Engineer Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Second Line Engineer
England > East of England

The median Second Line Engineer daily rate in the East of England is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 84 97
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 -1
Contract jobs requiring a 2nd Line Engineer 2 3 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% 0.23% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.26% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 15
10th Percentile £187 £214 £129
25th Percentile £189 £216 £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £238 £200
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% +2.56%
75th Percentile £211 £266 £250
90th Percentile £214 £271 £276
England median daily rate £210 £225 £200
% change year-on-year -6.67% +12.50% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,219 1,171 1,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.91% 89.12% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 500 994
10th Percentile £185 £220 £190
25th Percentile £350 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £597
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 203 280
10th Percentile £13.73 £15.18 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +6.74% +124.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £79.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -38.66% -10.64% +52.93%

2nd Line Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring '2nd Line Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

2nd Line Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

2nd Line Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 2nd Line Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for 2nd Line Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

2nd Line Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 2nd Line Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for 2nd Line Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

2nd Line Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 2nd Line Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +1 1 £200 -20.00% 2
Essex - 1 £200 - 1
2nd Line Engineer
England

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, 2nd Line Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring 2nd Line Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server

2nd Line Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware